CMF / CRF Details
CMF ID: 7294
Install Fixed Automated Spray Technology (FAST)
Description: Fixed Automated Spray Technology (FAST) provides quick, effective service delivery to high-risk locations prone to icy conditions and/or with high traffic volumes. They are designed as a fixed technology for anti-icing target areas (e.g. bridges, tunnels, ramps, other elevated roadways).
Prior Condition: No FAST
Category: Advanced technology and ITS
Study: Safety Effects of Fixed Automated Spray Technology Systems, Veneziano et al., 2015
| Star Quality Rating: |  [View score details] |
| Rating Points Total: | 55 |
| Crash Modification Factor (CMF) | |
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| Value: | 2.49 |
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| Crash Reduction Factor (CRF) | |
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| Value: | -149 (This value indicates an increase in crashes) |
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| Applicability | |
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| Crash Type: | All |
| Crash Severity: | All |
| Roadway Types: | All |
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| Crash Weather: | Not specified |
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| Area Type: | All |
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| Time of Day: | All |
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| Intersection Type: | Roadway/roadway (not interchange related) |
| Intersection Geometry: | Not specified |
| Traffic Control: | Uncontrolled |
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| Development Details | |
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| Date Range of Data Used: | 2008 to 2013 |
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| State: | CO |
| Country: | USA |
| Type of Methodology Used: | Before/after using empirical Bayes or full Bayes |
| Sample Size (crashes): | 5 crashes before, 13 crashes after |
| Sample Size (sites): | 1 sites before, 1 sites after |
| Sample Size (site-years): | 2 site-years before, 3 site-years after |
| Sample Size (miles): | .40 miles before, .4 miles after |
| Sample Size (miles): | .8 mile-years before, 1.2 mile-years after |
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| Included in Highway Safety Manual? | No |
| Date Added to Clearinghouse: | Nov 01, 2015 |
| Comments: | CMF based on observation of one ramp:I-270/I-76 EB to EB |
